Identifying Infinitives and Participles as Subjects
... "Identifying Verbs and Adverbs" explains that an "ing" form of a verb is not a verb unless it has helping verbs. Thus, if the "ing" form does not have at least one helping verb, it cannot be a verb. Work through the following sentence to see how we determine whether or not an "ing" form is a verb. S ...
... "Identifying Verbs and Adverbs" explains that an "ing" form of a verb is not a verb unless it has helping verbs. Thus, if the "ing" form does not have at least one helping verb, it cannot be a verb. Work through the following sentence to see how we determine whether or not an "ing" form is a verb. S ...
Pinker, Stephen. 1994. The Language Instinct. How the mind
... their own language, or of consistently violating a "rule," there must be some different sense of "grammatical" and "rule" in the air. In fact, the pervasive belief that people do not know their own language is a nuisance in doing linguistic research. A linguist's question to an informant about some ...
... their own language, or of consistently violating a "rule," there must be some different sense of "grammatical" and "rule" in the air. In fact, the pervasive belief that people do not know their own language is a nuisance in doing linguistic research. A linguist's question to an informant about some ...
Light Nouns and predicative Infinitives
... There is no event of eating implied in the strict sense (one could do something else with this object, e.g. give it to somebody else), specifically there is no control relation between the subject of the matrix and an implied agent of the embedded construction (e.g. give me something to eat for the ...
... There is no event of eating implied in the strict sense (one could do something else with this object, e.g. give it to somebody else), specifically there is no control relation between the subject of the matrix and an implied agent of the embedded construction (e.g. give me something to eat for the ...
Local Grammars and Compound Verb Lemmatization in Serbo
... distributed within a sentence, the lemmatization has to “bring together” parts of the same verb form and to determine the lemma (i.e. the infinitive form of the verb) and corresponding grammatical information (e.g. gender, person, tense). Unlike the lemmatization of nouns and adjectives, which has b ...
... distributed within a sentence, the lemmatization has to “bring together” parts of the same verb form and to determine the lemma (i.e. the infinitive form of the verb) and corresponding grammatical information (e.g. gender, person, tense). Unlike the lemmatization of nouns and adjectives, which has b ...
File
... Since the pronouns le and les can refer to different indirect objects (him, her, you) they are often accompanied by a + name, noun, or pronoun in order to clarify the meaning: Yo le compro flores=I buy her flowers. Yo le compro flores a mi novia= I buy my girlfriend flowers (and not that other girl- ...
... Since the pronouns le and les can refer to different indirect objects (him, her, you) they are often accompanied by a + name, noun, or pronoun in order to clarify the meaning: Yo le compro flores=I buy her flowers. Yo le compro flores a mi novia= I buy my girlfriend flowers (and not that other girl- ...
an aspect of representing the three basic syntactical units
... Like Jim and Mary above, these clauses do not depend on each other; one does not hang from another; one is not nested in another. They are EQUAL and INDEPENDENT, but together they form a larger sentence. Because they function together as equals, they are called COORDINATE clauses. Co- means equal an ...
... Like Jim and Mary above, these clauses do not depend on each other; one does not hang from another; one is not nested in another. They are EQUAL and INDEPENDENT, but together they form a larger sentence. Because they function together as equals, they are called COORDINATE clauses. Co- means equal an ...
Adverb Notes
... • Adverbs of time and place: here, yesterday, then • Adverbs of relative time: recently, soon, already • Adverbs of degree: extremely, very, rather • Adverbs of quantity: few, a lot, much • Adverbs of attitude: fortunately, apparently, clearly Placement of Adverbs: • Adverbs are usually found after ...
... • Adverbs of time and place: here, yesterday, then • Adverbs of relative time: recently, soon, already • Adverbs of degree: extremely, very, rather • Adverbs of quantity: few, a lot, much • Adverbs of attitude: fortunately, apparently, clearly Placement of Adverbs: • Adverbs are usually found after ...
historical aspect of the accusative with infinitive and the content
... guish various grades of modality by its very meaning (he said, he promised, he ordere — in this connection, I shall speak of lexical modality. The former kind of modality conveys the meanings of likelihood, probability, advisability, and the like. The other one differentiates the verb as to the kind ...
... guish various grades of modality by its very meaning (he said, he promised, he ordere — in this connection, I shall speak of lexical modality. The former kind of modality conveys the meanings of likelihood, probability, advisability, and the like. The other one differentiates the verb as to the kind ...
Chinese Verbs
... e.g. 1) We are always on time. 2) I have often wondered about that. 3) He rarely makes a mistake Adverbs in the middle position of a clause usually follow the word not. E.g. They do not often miss the bus. ...
... e.g. 1) We are always on time. 2) I have often wondered about that. 3) He rarely makes a mistake Adverbs in the middle position of a clause usually follow the word not. E.g. They do not often miss the bus. ...
Extracting and Using Trace-Free Functional Dependencies from the
... Exceptions to the isomorphism between the projection and the head are PPs, which differ from NPs as they cannot be subjects, and the possible functional changes of a word described by [18] as translations. For example, participles may function as adjectives upwards in the tree (Western industrialize ...
... Exceptions to the isomorphism between the projection and the head are PPs, which differ from NPs as they cannot be subjects, and the possible functional changes of a word described by [18] as translations. For example, participles may function as adjectives upwards in the tree (Western industrialize ...
1 The origins of language
... number of expressions is infinite. With fixed reference, there is a fixed number of signals in the system and each signal only relates to a particular object or occasion. 3 Which property of language enables people to talk about ‘the future’? 3 Displacement 4 How did the Gardners try to show that Wa ...
... number of expressions is infinite. With fixed reference, there is a fixed number of signals in the system and each signal only relates to a particular object or occasion. 3 Which property of language enables people to talk about ‘the future’? 3 Displacement 4 How did the Gardners try to show that Wa ...
The rise and fall of Hungarian complex tenses Katalin É. Kiss
... 9th century, when an independent Hungarian tribal alliance was formed, it also incorporated the Turkic Kabars and other Turkic fragments. The Hungarian–Khazar bilingualism of 10th century Hungarians is also reported in Constantine Porphyrogennetos’ De administrando imperio. 4. How did the borrowing ...
... 9th century, when an independent Hungarian tribal alliance was formed, it also incorporated the Turkic Kabars and other Turkic fragments. The Hungarian–Khazar bilingualism of 10th century Hungarians is also reported in Constantine Porphyrogennetos’ De administrando imperio. 4. How did the borrowing ...
Cicero Commentary
... completed action. persuasum est: intransitive verbs that govern the dative are used impersonally in the passive voice, but retain the dative (AG §372). salvum: Caesar feared (with good reason) that if he were to give up his army and province, he would be prosecuted before he could begin his consulsh ...
... completed action. persuasum est: intransitive verbs that govern the dative are used impersonally in the passive voice, but retain the dative (AG §372). salvum: Caesar feared (with good reason) that if he were to give up his army and province, he would be prosecuted before he could begin his consulsh ...
The oldest of my two friends had just got his
... A2 it is emphasized that it was a dog that was run over, not something else. In B1 it is stated that a job is available, whereas in B2 the speaker or writer refers to a particular job mentioned earlier (referential it), which is suitable for ‘you’. (B1 might also mean that somebody physically is poi ...
... A2 it is emphasized that it was a dog that was run over, not something else. In B1 it is stated that a job is available, whereas in B2 the speaker or writer refers to a particular job mentioned earlier (referential it), which is suitable for ‘you’. (B1 might also mean that somebody physically is poi ...
historical aspect of the accusative with infinitive and the content
... between the sentence pole and the non-sentence (nearer the lexicon) pole. On the one hand there is the ordinary simple sentence, on the other hand there are verbs complemented by two objects without any trace of the predicational (S-P) relation left between them. I think it useful to illustrate what ...
... between the sentence pole and the non-sentence (nearer the lexicon) pole. On the one hand there is the ordinary simple sentence, on the other hand there are verbs complemented by two objects without any trace of the predicational (S-P) relation left between them. I think it useful to illustrate what ...
Using constraint grammar in the Bangor Autoglosser to
... license allows existing lexical resources to be easily adapted and extended for the Autoglosser without having to worry about licensing terms. This is an especially important consideration for minority languages like Welsh,(Streiter et al., 2006) where resources may be limited. Each dictionary takes ...
... license allows existing lexical resources to be easily adapted and extended for the Autoglosser without having to worry about licensing terms. This is an especially important consideration for minority languages like Welsh,(Streiter et al., 2006) where resources may be limited. Each dictionary takes ...
dependent clauses File
... My greatest asset is that I am a hard worker. ( That I am a hard worker is a noun clause. It contains the subject I and the verb am. The clause acts as a predicate nominative in the sentence, identifying asset.) It’s important to think about why we make certain decisions. ( Why we make certain decis ...
... My greatest asset is that I am a hard worker. ( That I am a hard worker is a noun clause. It contains the subject I and the verb am. The clause acts as a predicate nominative in the sentence, identifying asset.) It’s important to think about why we make certain decisions. ( Why we make certain decis ...
Choosing the Correct Pronoun Case
... 6. Yes, it was (they, them) who suggested the revision to the report. A. they: the subject of a verb B. they: following a verb "to be" C. they: involved in a comparison D. them: no need for the subjective case 7. Sally was the person (who, whom) we selected as secretary. A. who: the subject of a ver ...
... 6. Yes, it was (they, them) who suggested the revision to the report. A. they: the subject of a verb B. they: following a verb "to be" C. they: involved in a comparison D. them: no need for the subjective case 7. Sally was the person (who, whom) we selected as secretary. A. who: the subject of a ver ...
Knots in My Yo-Yo String By: Jerry Spinelli with a focus on pronouns
... everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone Examples: I put my soda down on the table, but someone moved it! The party is going to be great! Everybody will be there. ...
... everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone Examples: I put my soda down on the table, but someone moved it! The party is going to be great! Everybody will be there. ...
FDTL Reading Session Sentence pattern and function word
... A balanced number of syllables in a phrase is important in written Chinese. Sometimes a syllable in a word can be omitted in order to form the abbreviated expression desired. Syllables can also be added to a word to form an expression, as shown in the following sentence which contains the co-verb 搭 ...
... A balanced number of syllables in a phrase is important in written Chinese. Sometimes a syllable in a word can be omitted in order to form the abbreviated expression desired. Syllables can also be added to a word to form an expression, as shown in the following sentence which contains the co-verb 搭 ...
Metonymy Interpretation Using X NO Y Examples
... 1999a). Metonymy is a metaphorical expression in which the name of something is substituted for another thing associated with the thing named. For example, in the Japanese sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the ...
... 1999a). Metonymy is a metaphorical expression in which the name of something is substituted for another thing associated with the thing named. For example, in the Japanese sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the ...
The Clause
... 1. My friend found the CD that my sister bought me for my birthday. Dep. Clause: that my sister bought me for my birthday ...
... 1. My friend found the CD that my sister bought me for my birthday. Dep. Clause: that my sister bought me for my birthday ...
ADJECTIVES
... How are adjectives used with verbs? There are times when an adjective is placed after the verb. In this case it is common that an adjective is used with the "linking verb", but the adjective doesn't describe the verb. The adjective describes the subject that is performing the action. Adjectives are ...
... How are adjectives used with verbs? There are times when an adjective is placed after the verb. In this case it is common that an adjective is used with the "linking verb", but the adjective doesn't describe the verb. The adjective describes the subject that is performing the action. Adjectives are ...
Chapter 5 Dictionaries
... typographe, or imprimeur are possible ‘general’ translations). The entry also contains some examples of idioms, or other usages, again with the appropriate translations. Normal, ‘paper’ dictionaries, are collections of entries such as these. That is, they are basically lists of words, with informati ...
... typographe, or imprimeur are possible ‘general’ translations). The entry also contains some examples of idioms, or other usages, again with the appropriate translations. Normal, ‘paper’ dictionaries, are collections of entries such as these. That is, they are basically lists of words, with informati ...
HOW TO USE AN ON-LINE RUSSIAN DICTIONARY FOR BASIC
... “having a meal in the middle of the day”; the second meaning is “the midday meal/food itself” (as in “cook dinner”), and the third meaning is “time of the day when people usually have dinner”. Being aware of the multiplicity of meanings is important for translation, as you will soon see. e, f. Follo ...
... “having a meal in the middle of the day”; the second meaning is “the midday meal/food itself” (as in “cook dinner”), and the third meaning is “time of the day when people usually have dinner”. Being aware of the multiplicity of meanings is important for translation, as you will soon see. e, f. Follo ...